Rapper Macklemore made an appearance on beloved children's TV series Sesame Street to sing a parody of his hit Thrift Shop with character Oscar the Grouch and his crew of Grouches. The hip-hop star wore layers of second-hand clothes and occasionally sung from inside a dustbin during the sketch, which aired in the U.S. on Monday (12Jan15).

Soccer legend David Beckham and Catherine, Duchess Of Cambridge have the perfect celebrity hairstyles of 2015, according to new research. Former sportsman Beckham, crooner Michael Buble, and comedian Russell Brand are proof that men achieve the ideal look for their locks at the age of 39.
Women hit their hair peak at 32, as proved by the tumbling tresses and luscious locks of Prince William's wife Catherine, and Hollywood stars Anne Hathaway, Kirsten Dunst, and Jessica Biel.
Research by staff at the Crown Clinic in Manchester, Britain's leading hair transplant centre, also shows the average woman has tried almost 50 different styles before finding her ideal image, while most men go through 10 looks before settling on their best.
Crown Clinic hair transplant surgeon Asim Shahmalak says, "Kate's hair is admired by women all over the world. It has a wonderful lustrous quality to it and is styled perfectly. She is very comfortable with her style and it looks so right for a woman of 32.
"David Beckham is a style icon in so many ways - not least his hair. From his mohican cut, to his crew cut and now to his slick back parted style, he has always been a fashion leader. After many years of chopping and changing his hair, he seems to have arrived at a style he is happy with at 39."

Rapper Cool C has been granted a second stay of execution one day before he was set to receive the death penalty on Thursday (08Jan15). The MC, real name Christopher Roney, was convicted of first-degree murder after shooting Officer Lauretha Vaird during a bank robbery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1996.
Roney was originally scheduled to be put to death in 2006, but he was granted a stay of execution.
In November (14), an execution warrant was signed by Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett, and the rapper was scheduled to receive a lethal injection on Thursday.
However, Roney escaped death again, after a Philadelphia judge granted him a second stay of execution on Wednesday (07Jan15), according to a local Philadelphia NBC News affiliate.
Cool C was a big name on the Philadelphia rap scene in the late-1980s and early-1990s. His 1987 breakthrough single Juice Crew Dis became an underground hit. He later became an Atlantic artist and enjoyed success with his album Down to the Grissle. His other hits included I Gotta Habit and Glamorous Life.

Filming on Daniel Craig's new James Bond movie resumed on Monday (05Jan15) after heavy snow in Europe brought the shoot to a standstill. The British actor is back in action working on the latest 007 blockbuster, Spectre, and he has been shooting scenes around Lake Altaussee in Austria.
However, the region has been hit with heavy snow over the last week, causing travel misery for thousands heading off on ski vacations, and the Bond shoot also fell victim to the wintry weather.
The shoot was halted and filming was postponed, according to local officials, but movie bosses confirmed the crew got back to work on Monday (05Jan15).
A picture of a clapperboard emblazoned with the date was posted on the official Bond Twitter account showing piles of snow and an icy mountainous backdrop, along with the caption, "First day back on set Spectre."

Producers behind new civil rights drama Selma are facing questions over on-set safety procedures after a crew member allegedly suffered a near-fatal electrocution while working on the film. Lighting technician Ronnie Sands claims he had been in a time crunch while installing an 18,000 watt bulb on the Atlanta, Georgia set on 4 June (14) when someone reportedly connected the plug into the main power source, despite warnings from Sands.
His fiancee, Kelly Shure, tells local Atlanta news station Channel 2, "That's when Ronnie was hit with the voltage and the arc of light that hit him in the face. Everyone just started announcing on the radios, 'Man down! Man electrocuted!'"
Sands adds to Deadline.com, "I am very lucky to be alive."
He received treatment from an on-set medic, who had him admitted to a nearby emergency room for treatment.
Doctors determined the massive shock caused him painful headaches, memory loss and blurred vision and Shure claims her beau is still struggling with nerve damage, which has prevented him from working.
She says, "He's just very traumatised and we're still trying to find the answers."
Shure filed a complaint with U.S. officials at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in November (14), but was told last week (ends26Dec14) that they were unable to inspect the set circumstances as the movie, directed by Ava DuVernay, had already wrapped months before.
Producers are not required by federal law to file an incident report with the OSHA unless a work-related accident results in death or three or more employees are hospitalised.
Sands has been able to obtain worker's compensation to help him through his recovery, but he is still demanding action and answers from Selma film bosses, who claim they are working with insurers to get to the bottom of the incident.
A spokesperson for the movie production tells Deadline: "We are all deeply affected by injuries that occur in the workplace. After all, these involve our friends and colleagues. Any such incidents are promptly notified to the production insurers and are then reviewed by the loss adjustors. This is the process on which we are currently embarked."
Deadline editors allege Sands wasn't the only Selma crew member to suffer an on-set accident - a set dresser fell through a roof while working in Montgomery, Alabama, while a number of extras reportedly suffered heat exhaustion while filming a rally scene in sweltering conditions.
Selma, which has emerged as an awards season favourite, stars British actor David Oyelowo as civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr. during the 1965 voting reform marches in Alabama.
Oprah Winfrey also co-stars and serves as the film's co-producer.

Tons of celebrities write memoirs. Even the ones who aren’t old enough to write memoirs dictate their short lives to a “co-writer” who gets it ready for Kindle consumption at rapid speed (Justin Bieber, we’re looking at you). But there are other famous folks who give fiction writing a shot and find themselves atop a best-seller list or two. Read up on a few successful celebrity authors and the books you may or may not have known they wrote!
1. Julianne Moore
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Julianne Moore published her first children’s book, Freckleface Strawberry, in October 2007 and it was an instant smash. It landed on the New York Times Best Seller list and was later adapted into a musical, further proving that having red hair and freckles makes you awesome.
2. Hilary Duff
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Um, yeah. Lizzie McGuire wrote a book. A popular one at that. Her debut young adult novel Elixir (which was co-written with Elise Allen because, let’s face it, when you think Hilary Duff you don’t think “novelist”) was released in 2010. It peaked on the New York Times Best Seller list and Duff went on to “write” two more sequels to the supernatural romance.
3. Lauren Conrad
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The former Hills reality star penned a novel that was basically a fictionalized version of her life – kind of like, well, The Hills. L.A. Candy was released in 2009, became a bestseller, and inspired two sequels – Sweet Little Lies and Sugar and Spice.
4. Lauren Graham
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We know from Gilmore Girls that Lauren Graham has a knack for spouting witty dialogue, but apparently she can write it too! Her debut novel, Someday, Someday, Maybe – about a young woman trying to make it as an actress in New York in the mid-90s - was released in 2013 and quickly entered the New York Times Best Seller list. Rory would be so proud.
5. Chris Colfer
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Talk about an out-of-the-blue success story! We only knew Chris Colfer as a singing/acting machine on Glee, but he became a bonafide author in 2012 with the release of the children’s book The Land of Stories:The Wishing Spell. He spent two weeks at the top of the New York Times Best Seller list in the Children’s Chapter Books category. All of this accomplished at the ripe old age of 22. Can you even?
6. James Franco
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That’s one way to put your many college degrees to use. James Franco released a collection of short stories called Palo Alto in 2010. And while many critics deemed it a failure, it was turned into a film…which nobody saw. Ok so maybe it wasn’t commercially successful but come on, don’t you just want to read it out of curiosity?
7. Nicole Richie
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The former party girl of The Simple Life put pen to paper (or, in a more likely scenario, hired a ghostwriter) to complete a semi-autobiographical novel called The Truth About Diamonds. The book, released in 2005, is about a singer's adopted daughter who becomes a celebutante and battles drug addiction. Sound familiar? Richie even put a picture of herself on the cover. Still, it reached number 32 in the Hardcover Fiction New York Times Best Seller list. She released a second novel, Priceless, in 2010.
8. B.J. Novak
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How do you entice kids to read a book with no pictures? Have B.J. Novak write it. The former Office star’s children’s book – aptly titled The Book With No Pictures – became a huge hit with the kindergarten set when it was released earlier this year. For anyone who thought this was an unusual career move for Novak, he’s having the last laugh – along with thousands of extremely entertained kids.
9. Ricky Martin
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Since becoming a dad, Ricky Martin is no longer livin’ la vida loca. Instead, he’s writing children’s books. His first book, Santiago the Dreamer in Land Among the Stars, was released in 2013. The picture book was inspired by his own childhood and was published in both English and Spanish. Martin previously penned his memoir in 2011.
10. Steve Martin
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This comedian takes his writing seriously. He wrote a novella, Shopgirl, in 2000, which was turned into a movie. And in 2010, he published a novel called An Object of Beauty about a young woman trying to make it in the art world.
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Seth Rogen and James Franco made a screening of The Interview interactive by live-tweeting with fans while watching the controversial film on Sunday (29Dec14).
The comedy, about two Americans hired to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, was slated to hit U.S. cinemas on Christmas Day (25Dec14), but Sony Pictures bosses axed the release after online hackers threatened venues screening the movie.
Sony bosses distributed the film via a number of online platforms, including Google Inc's YouTube and Google Play, the film company's own website and Apple's iTunes.
On Sunday, the movie's stars, Rogen and Franco, along with co-director Evan Goldberg, took to Twitter.com and invited their followers to watch The Interview along with them, creating a live commentary as fans viewed the film from their own homes.
Rogen admitted the unusual circumstances surrounding the release of the film felt odd, writing, "I gotta say that it's f**king weird I'm watching this on TV right now."
The stars gave behind-the-scenes insights for each scene, including one in which rapper Eminem makes an unexpected cameo appearance, while Franco also confessed that he almost ran over Rogen and the camera crew while learning to drive a tank for the film.
The unconventional release has actually proven to be record-breaking for Sony, as executives released a statement on Sunday revealing The Interview has been purchased or rented online more than two million times, raking in more than $15 million in its first four days, making it the number one online movie ever released by the studio.
While bosses at a number of movie theatre chains in the U.S. refused to screen the movie, more than 300 mostly independent cinemas agreed to a limited run which began on Christmas Day, and the picture has since grossed $2.8 million at the U.S. box office.

Night At The Museum stars Ben Stiller and Ricky Gervais have paid tribute to tragic funnyman Robin Williams after working with him in his final onscreen appearance.
The trio teamed up to shoot the last movie in the hit comedy franchise earlier this year (14), with Williams reprising his role as waxwork Teddy Roosevelt. Unknown to the cast and crew, the scenes were among the last Williams filmed prior to his suicide in August (14), and Stiller vividly recalls how the shoot was a poignant one as Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb would be the end of the franchise.
He tells U.K. talk show host Graham Norton, "On set we felt it was going to be the last Night at the Museum so there was that awareness of it, but obviously we had no clue what was going to happen (to Robin)."
Gervais adds, "Everyone I have ever met who knew him absolutely loved him. I've never heard a bad word about him. He was lovely all the time and never forgot to be the nicest person. If he had a second between takes he would be entertaining the crew. He was an amazing, lovely man."

Actress Anna Kendrick was left kicking herself on the set of new film Into The Woods after her co-star James Corden tricked her into thinking Meryl Streep had been fired from the movie musical.
The cheeky British funnyman portrays The Baker, opposite Kendrick as Cinderella and Streep as The Witch in the film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's hit stageshow, and he reveals he managed to pull off what he's hailed as "the greatest thing" he's ever done by recruiting fellow castmember Christine Baranski to prank their co-workers.
He explains, "On Into the Woods, I managed to convince a small selection of the cast and crew that Meryl Streep had been fired from the film. "I'm with Anna Kendrick and there's two members of the crew... (off to) the side, it looks like a heated discussion, and Anna says, 'Oh, I wonder what that's about?' and I go, 'Oh, did you not hear that they fired Meryl?' She goes, 'Oh, shut up, James!' And I go, 'No, no, seriously, they've fired Meryl.' She goes, 'Right!' "Then Christine Baranski walks over, who is devilishly good fun and loves a hoot, and I managed to just give her a wink as she comes over and I go, 'Is Meryl OK? I can't believe they fired her.' And she goes, 'She's in bits' - just like that, quick as a flash... 'James, I've never seen her like this. Who fires Meryl Streep?' And Anna goes, 'Oh my God, he's serious?' And Christine goes, 'Glenn Close is on a private jet, on her way.'"
He continues, "It starts to grow to the point where I'm thinking, 'Wait, has she been fired?' and then Meryl comes in in her costume and then people can't believe that it was ever something they believed. I mean, who would ever (fire Meryl Streep)? It's ridiculous."

Late actress/dancer Stephanie Moseley's co-stars and crewmembers on her TV series Hit The Floor have started a memorial fund to assist her family following her death. Moseley was found dead in her apartment in Los Angeles on Monday morning (08Dec14) after her husband, rapper Earl Hayes, apparently shot her before turning the gun on himself.
Soon after, a fundraising page was set up on GoFundMe.com, asking fans to donate what they can to help her grieving family members.
A message on the site reads: "This is a memorial fund created by Stephanie's Hit The Floor family celebrating the life of an angel gone too soon. Stephanie Moseley represented the very best in all of us, and always did it in beat and with a smile. The world lost an amazing talent, and heaven gained an angel.
"Before dancing and the bright lights, Stephanie's passion was always the love she shared with her family. With heavy hearts, we think there is no greater tribute to Stephanie than to embrace that love through supporting the celebration of her life and the ones that loved her."
The dance drama's executive producer James LaRosa admits to Entertainment Tonight that the entire cast and crew is still in shock over the tragedy, saying, "She was just a huge light for us - a wonderful person. It actually still is very surreal. I haven't really fully processed it to be honest...
"None of the cast or crew of Hit the Floor wants Stephanie to be defined or remembered for yesterday. It's a hideous, awful thing and we need to focus on Stephanie and the amazing person that she is."